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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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when a few people persuade the majority

Equality, not competition or hierarchy, is 'the mother of invention'. Progress slows or goes into reverse as soon as ideas are appropriated by hierarchical organizations. Inequality is sustained when a few people persuade the majority that there is no alternative. [...]

—p.9 The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World Introduction (11) by Bob Hughes
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Marxism is not Stalinism

But the disenchantment of American intellectuals with psychoanalytic ideas, as with the earlier disenchantment with Marxist ideas (a parallel case), is premature. Marxism is not Stalinism or the suppression of the Hungarian revolution; pschoanalysis is not the Park Avenue analyst or the psychoanaly…

—p.258 Against Interpretation and Other Essays Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death (256) by Susan Sontag
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the hunger for a good war

There is a vast amount of wishful thinking in science fiction films, some of it touching, some of it depressing. Again and again, one detects the hunger for a "good war," which poses no moral problems, admits of no moral qualifications. The imagery of science fiction films will satisfy the most bel…

—p.219 The imagination of disaster (209) by Susan Sontag